Etruscian Chain Bracelet

  • Etruscian style woven chain bracelet
  • Historically this type of chain consists of hundreds of individually soldered links
  • Here I have made the chain from a single strand of silver wire. This 'corking' is related to a technique I learned as a child, using yarn, a spool with 4 nails, and a crochet hook.
      
etruscian bracelet
   

Catch detail

  • Screw catch parts fabricated using a manual lathe
  • Outer bead CNC milled in wax, bored on lathe, and investment cast
  • Fine detailing around beads was hand engraved
  • All parts then assembled to chain
      
   

Model

  • Perspective Rhino render
  • blue cylinder is only a modeling aid
  • although the model is pierced the actual milled wax wasn't; tooling and machine geometry are useful design tools.

bracelet render


   








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